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From: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
To: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,  linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k: mm: Remove check for VM_IO to fix deferred I/O
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 10:55:30 +1100 (AEDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d65d2e1-5fb3-456-3cc5-fbd3167d06c@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1cd50eb-e476-b4bd-0b2f-b4a8699660f6@gmail.com>

On Sat, 29 Jan 2022, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> Hi Geert,
> 
> for hwregs_present(), the exception fixup will handle any access error 
> (through send_fault_sig()), so this should continue to work.
> 
> Why the special handling of VM_IO pages? Maybe hp300 had marked all IO 
> register pages VM_IO to distinguish IO faults from VM faults...
> 
> The only other area I can imagine this might have an impact is the Mac's 
> pseudo-DMA - FInn might want to give this some testing.
> 

mac_scsi.c and mac_esp.c don't use ioremap(). They rely on head.S:

        mmu_map_eq      #0x50000000,#0x03000000,%d3

Having said that, I will run some tests if you still think it necessary.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-28 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-28 17:30 [PATCH] m68k: mm: Remove check for VM_IO to fix deferred I/O Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-01-28 21:26 ` Michael Schmitz
2022-01-28 23:55   ` Finn Thain [this message]
2022-01-29  2:08     ` Michael Schmitz
2022-01-30  0:32 ` Michael Schmitz
2022-01-30  6:57   ` Michael Schmitz
2022-01-31  2:21 ` Michael Schmitz
2022-02-07 13:06   ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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